A CES interview with SOE CEO John Smedley

Massively: "In the past year, Sony Online Entertainment has made some interesting announcements regarding plans for their upcoming titles. What made you change your mind, and focused you and SOE down the path of mictrotransactions as opposed to subscriptions?"

good to see those bicuspids back in effect. The Free Realms idea he spoke about is freaking awesome. Sony is really, really trying to make this the do-it-all-in-one Swiss Army knife of consoles. Amazing.

"...we're opening them up to that possibility by letting them play for free. You're going to see that first with FreeRealms, and I'm not going to commit to it yet but we're leaning towards going that direction with the Agency as well."